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Re: Mischa's Cursed Webring

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Post by fortran77 » Fri, Mar 05, 2021, 5:32 PM UTC

There's something very charming about these 90's style web-pages, content aside.

Re: Mischa's Cursed Webring

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Post by dookahku » Fri, Mar 05, 2021, 5:33 PM UTC

CDSlice wrote: post #9

I'm not really sure what's so "cursed" about this website? http://www.hytechshotz.com/default.asp The website design is pretty bad but based off of the OP saying "most of them are really deep and demonstrate some sort of twisted brain that was behind each site" I'm not really sure why this one is on the list.

Maybe like finding a Prada store in the middle of nowhere near marfra Texas... Either it's a cover or an artwork, or possibly someone That twisted at Prada headquarters decide that it was a good location

Re: Mischa's Cursed Webring

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Post by mattnewton » Fri, Mar 05, 2021, 5:36 PM UTC

CDSlice wrote: post #9

I'm not really sure what's so "cursed" about this website? http://www.hytechshotz.com/default.asp The website design is pretty bad but based off of the OP saying "most of them are really deep and demonstrate some sort of twisted brain that was behind each site" I'm not really sure why this one is on the list.

Some of these sites are just dope, like this 3d graphing software site https://cursed.llolo.lol/dpgraph.com/

But have hideous design :D

Re: Mischa's Cursed Webring

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Post by hc-taway » Fri, Mar 05, 2021, 5:36 PM UTC

CDSlice wrote: post #9

I'm not really sure what's so "cursed" about this website? http://www.hytechshotz.com/default.asp The website design is pretty bad but based off of the OP saying "most of them are really deep and demonstrate some sort of twisted brain that was behind each site" I'm not really sure why this one is on the list.

I'd say that one gets in for having photos with "2019-2020", so clearly still being updated, but for feeling so very much like it's from 1999. Choosing to lead with an unremarkable aerial photography shot, and something about the saturation in the images, is so 1990s, not just the design. @aol.com contact email. The name is reminiscent of "icy hot stuntaz". The whole package is very special.

Re: Mischa's Cursed Webring

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Post by prox » Fri, Mar 05, 2021, 5:37 PM UTC

bwooster wrote: post #5

prox wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is it exactly? There is no editorial to go with this. I love the time machine feel though. Hello tables!

I've been trying to make a list of "cursed" websites - some of them are really deep and vast and demonstrate some sort of twisted brain that was behind each site. Some are just bizarre. Most have cursed vibes. You can spend hours on a lot of them just digging up fucked up shit.

Cool, going to check it out later!

Re: Mischa's Cursed Webring

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Post by sidpatil » Fri, Mar 05, 2021, 5:42 PM UTC

Also of interest:

https://www.cameronsworld.net/

https://wiby.me/

Re: Mischa's Cursed Webring

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Post by guerrilla » Fri, Mar 05, 2021, 5:49 PM UTC

dookahku wrote: post #12

CDSlice wrote: post #9

I'm not really sure what's so "cursed" about this website? http://www.hytechshotz.com/default.asp The website design is pretty bad but based off of the OP saying "most of them are really deep and demonstrate some sort of twisted brain that was behind each site" I'm not really sure why this one is on the list.

Maybe like finding a Prada store in the middle of nowhere near marfra Texas... Either it's a cover or an artwork, or possibly someone That twisted at Prada headquarters decide that it was a good location

Apparently that's just an art installation

https://inspiredimperfection.com/adventures/prada-marfa/

Re: Mischa's Cursed Webring

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Post by SamBam » Fri, Mar 05, 2021, 5:52 PM UTC

muybasado wrote: post #4

Interesting project, however it seems it has a certain bias against a peculiar demographic, unfortunately this isn't surprising at all. Culture war permeates everything.

I really didn't understand this comment, and you didn't expand, so I assumed that it must have been something obvious and I was too insensitive to notice. So I did a survey of the first 20 sites it gave me and try to categorize by "demographic/culture." Here's what I got:

    Unknown (math, science etc) 6
    Asian 4
    Christian 2
    Middle America  2
    Goth 1
    Democrat 1
    Irish 1
    EU 1
    Swiss 1
    English 1

So... I'm still in the dark. I guess Asians are overrepresented? But that included several different countries (I could only wrote Korea and China before I started categorizing them together).

Or maybe you decided they were making fun of your demographic in particular, and confirmation bias led you to see only that? Are you seeing "culture war" where there isn't any, or am I still blind?

Re: Mischa's Cursed Webring

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Mar 05, 2021, 5:59 PM UTC

bwooster wrote: post #5

prox wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is it exactly? There is no editorial to go with this. I love the time machine feel though. Hello tables!

I've been trying to make a list of "cursed" websites - some of them are really deep and vast and demonstrate some sort of twisted brain that was behind each site. Some are just bizarre. Most have cursed vibes. You can spend hours on a lot of them just digging up fucked up shit.

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Re: Mischa's Cursed Webring

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Post by eat_veggies » Fri, Mar 05, 2021, 5:59 PM UTC

on the topic of web rings, check out this little webring I built for github profile readmes a few months back:

https://octo-ring.com/

Here's what the widget looks like on your profile -- there are some wild markdown table hacks to make the buttons individually clickable: https://github.com/veggiedefender/